You'll find no official explanation because "the public" mostly act as Gustave Le Bon (psychology of the crowd) and Eduard Bernays (propaganda) have observed in

You'll find no official explanation because "the public" mostly act as Gustave Le Bon (psychology of the crowd) and Eduard Bernays (propaganda) have observed in the recent past. Neoliberal economy have cyclic crisis solved with wars, big wars, whose target is stealing someone else richness and justify the mess with the ongoing war situation. We are at the beginning of such cycle. EVs probably serve a purpose: if you buy it and you have followed the new deal so far, you'll suffer less: living in an insulated, airtight modern home, with perhaps p.v. and lithium storage, and EV etc you can surpass frequent electricity and gas supply disruptions, you have enough space to store water, food in freezer etc to cope with irregular wartime-alike supply deficit, you'll be less touched by stagflation etc if you are also wealthy enough at the right time you might be able to buy for very little price valuable assets than in a sooner future became far more valued on the market. The "carbon footprint" is that. A way to justify social score, covid pass was the first general-public test, it have durability issues, people do not accept them longer, while they are trained to scan Qr codes for anything, like Chinese ones, so the next will be carbon score: if you have followed the new deal your score will be good, so you'll live well, others will not. It's just a kind of common misunderstanding: Green New Deal for many means spring-grass-green new deal, for the Earth, actually it means dollar-green-new-deal and the climate target is the neoliberals chiefs climate, economical and social one. Global carbon footprint is the same: a tool to classify people by census and obeisance. Try to re-read: https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/shopping-i-cant-really-remember-what-that-is-or-how-differently-well-live-in-2030/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s... how can be achieved such scenario? How can be made McKinsey work-lager-factories like https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/how-we-help-clients/capital-excellence/cities https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/how-w... ? You can't simply made them: people will revolt. But if they are forced to accept them for economical reasons, like they can't afford living like before, because of war, resource scarcity, grasshoppers invasion etc... Those who have followed anyway will get a future like https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/uam-full-report.pdf https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/uam-full-... so they have not much reasons to complaint, those in modern prisons can't complaint... Voilà the 2030 scenario built.